National Support Services, General

Provides website-based resources for parents and caregivers who play an essential role in helping children and teenagers recover from traumatic events.

Internet-based resource

Provides information on caregiver services, policy and research. Search for state-based resources using the Services by State tool.

Provides support and information to people of short stature and their families.

Services Include:

• Peer, parent, and medical support at the chapter, regional and national level
• Discounted rates at the National conference; advocacy
• College scholarships and support
• Adoption and conference attendance grants
• Friendship and connections
• Referrals to medical care by dwarfism specialists

A national movement working to transform the way we care in this country, aiming to organize and develop policy on the local, state, and federal levels to expand care options for seniors, people with disabilities, and their caregivers while improving the quality of home care jobs.

Serves as a national resource to support the implementation of Help Me Grow systems throughout the country. Provides technical support to states and communities to operationalize efforts to plan, build, and enhance a comprehensive and integrated State Help Me Grow system, ensuring the development of robust, effective early childhood systems that promote the healthy development of every child.

Help Me Grow National Center is a program of Connecticut Children's Office for Community Child Health.

A website that provides resources to parents from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Includes tools to locate pediatricians and pediatric specialists throughout the US.

• Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Treatment
• Parenting Helplines
• General Mental Health Information/Education

MaleSurvivor fosters a healing community where tens of thousands of men from more than 200 countries come together to find support, information and — most importantly — hope. Services include online forum, support groups, find a therapist, and resources for family members and loved ones of victims.

Support Groups: Find support groups, events, and reading recommendations.

Find a Therapist: Search clinics and clinicians by name or location.

For parents: Resources for parents of sexual abuse survivors.

Raises awareness, funds scientific research and provides resources and aid to those affected by suicide. Local chapters in all 50 states with programs and events nationwide. Search for chapters on website.

Provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals.

Crisis Chat Service provides online emotional support at: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/

• Bereavement Support Groups
• Parenting Helplines

The mission of Recovery International is to use the cognitive-behavioral, peer-to-peer, self-help training system developed by Abraham Low, MD, to help individuals gain skills to lead more peaceful and productive lives.

Online Resources Include:

• Local meeting locator

Promotes the safety, permanency and well being of children and families by connecting child welfare, adoption and referral professionals as well as concerned citizens to timely, essential information.

Provides access to print and electronic publications, web sites and online databases covering a wide range of topics from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, adoption search and reunion and much more.

To report child abuse or neglect, please contact Child Help USA at 1.800.4 A Child (1.800.422.4453) or see our list of State child abuse and neglect reporting numbers.

The mission of United Way is to improve people's lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities.

United Ways across the country activate community resources to make the greatest possible human impact. The United Way system includes approximately 1,400 community-based United Way organizations. Each is independent, separately incorporated and governed by local volunteers.

As community leaders, United Ways address the most critical local issues and mobilize resources beyond the dollars that are pledged through their fund-raising efforts. Community partners often include schools, government policy makers, businesses, organized labor, financial institutions, voluntary and neighborhood associations, community development corporations and the faith community.

• Parenting Helplines

Provides and online resources for coping with body-focused repetitive behaviors (like hair pulling and skin picking). Website is designed for those with these behaviors, family members, medical and mental health professionals, and others interested in learning about this often-misunderstood disorder.

Services Include:

• Specialized Information and Referral
• Therapist Directory
• Support Group

PFLAG is the first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies. Provides local chapter finder and other information resources.

Provides GSA clubs or student-run organizations that unite LGBTQ+ and allied youth to build community and organize around issues impacting them in their schools and communities. 

Interested Parties can utilize the map the website provides to find the GSA Chapter in your State.

Provides educational programs, training and technical assistance resources, and consultation to health care organizations including health centers with the goal of optimizing quality, cost-effective health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

The Disaster Distress Helpline is staffed by trained counselors from a network of crisis call centers located across the United States. These counselors provide:

a. Crisis counseling for people in emotional distress related to any natural or human-caused disaster,
b. Information on how to recognize distress and its effects on individuals and families,
c. Tips for healthy coping,
d. Referrals to local crisis call centers for additional follow-up care and support.

The Disaster Distress Helpline puts people in need of counseling on the path to recovery. Our staff members provide counseling and support before, during, and after disasters and refer people to local disaster-related resources for follow-up care and support. Since its launch in February 2012, the Disaster Distress Helpline has provided counseling and support in response to disasters such as Hurricane Sandy, the Boston Marathon bombing, the Ebola outbreak, and the Coronavirus pandemic.

Text "TalkWithUs" TO 66746 (Spanish-speakers can text 'Hablanos' to 66746); available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

An online resource that provides free help guides and assistance in finding resources from the US Government, 50 states, local charities, and community action agencies.